Game device

Claim 1

In a shuttlecock having a weighted base with one end thereof shaped for resilient impact with a shuttlecock projector; said shuttlecock being adapted to be propelled through the air and to assume a path of flight wherein the one end of said base is generally oriented forwardly most in the direction of said flight; the improvement comprising: (a) an assemblage of lightweight, non-limp filament connected with the other end of said base and imparting a floating action to the flight of said shuttlecock; (b) a weight having a marginal edge; and (c) a sleeve being flexible and resilient, and having a central aperture extending therethrough; said weight being positioned laterally in said sleeve aperture and being axially movable between opposing ends thereof to vary the thickness of that portion of the sleeve disposed between said weight and said base one end; the marginal edge of said weight abutting an interior surface of said sleeve and frictionally retaining said weight in a selected position therein, whereby said weight is selectively, axially translated in said sleeve central aperture with respect to said base one end for adjusting shuttlecock tip cushion.